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Professor Kozlowski Lectures · Tuesday · 1 hr 45 min

HBM - The Beats

Today we discuss the Beat movement of the American 1960's and '70s. Like many of our subjects, the Beats were informed by Blake, magic, and the occult; like many of our subjects, the Beats were political revolutionaries; like many of our subjects, the Beats went on to influence many more contemporary art movements and ideas. But the Beats - and especially William S. Burroughs in his essays "The Invisible Generation" and "The Electronic Revolution" - were also conscious of the power of mass media in their own time, and offer a fascinating glimpse of the power of mass media in ours.

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Today we discuss the Beat movement of the American 1960's and '70s. Like many of our subjects, the Beats were informed by Blake, magic, and the occult; like many of our subjects, the Beats were political revolutionaries; like many of our subjects, the Beats went on to influence many more contemporary art movements and ideas. But the Beats - and especially William S. Burroughs in his essays "The Invisible Generation" and "The Electronic Revolution" - were also conscious of the power of mass media in their own time, and offer a fascinating glimpse of the power of mass media in ours.

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